The Burbs

Bus Rapid Transit is the new reality for Detroit

December 19, 2011

Featured, Maps, The Burbs, Transportation

In the city of Detroit this holiday Season, the city council isn't taking a vacation.In the city of Lansing, the state of Michigan is reviewing the books for Detroit. When they are done, the city council ma...

Night of the Living Burbs

John Cruz

October 29, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Featured, The Burbs

When I was a kid, I grew up in a subdivision in Clinton Township, Michigan (a northern suburb of Detroit). Despite being part of the urban sprawl that is the greater metro United States, this neighborhood was a...

How does one rebuild “trust” in Detroit?

John Cruz

September 28, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

Detroit is at a crossroads. We can take the opportunities we have been given and make something great, or we can continue to squabble away our future because we simply cannot get along with each other. The Detr...

Parking lot gardens? Why not!

John Cruz

August 26, 2011

Featured, Sustainability, The Burbs, Transportation

One of the ugliest sights of American suburbia is the sea of concrete which provides parking for all of the merry patrons coming to shop. Adding insult to injury, the parking lots are a gigantic a monument to p...